The then EU Budget Commissioner told me that giving control of this funding to national governments would make it subject to “democratic whim”.
When Johnson was Mayor, challenging performance targets were set – and a credible plan implemented to ensure they were achieved.
Johnson ordered them, at the request of the police. There was no indication from the Home Office that a licence would be refused.
I’m backing him to be the next Mayor of London. He will work tirelessly to deliver and he will lead.
It is funded at a lower level than schools, and yet is expected to put right much that has gone wrong. Technical courses need higher esteem.
No celebrity candidates. No non-Tories. Bailey, Boff and Morrissey have all spent years campaigning, knocking on doors, handing out leaflets in the sun and in the rain.
The focus is on the choice of candidate. But the first consideration should be what the message should be and how it can be conveyed.
The police know where the hot spots are. They must identify the most harmful gang members and can give them a stark choice.
Rather than making excuses, a united effort is needed to break up the gangs.
What really matters is proving that devolution has not stalled under Theresa May’s Brexit-focused government.
We face the prospect of extinction in our nation’s capital if we do not take steps to arrest a decline that has been underway for some years.
The real issue is how many new homes are actually delivered.
Rather than finding the money to deliver on his pledge, the Mayor prefers to fail and blame the Conservative Government.
Spending the money on hybrid buses would be much more effective.
At one point, City Hall officials told me the only way to get a project done was to hire external lawyers to take City Hall’s procurement lawyers to court.